IMovie 5 and Canon HV10

This question is somewhat related to one below and so i apologize for any overlap. I am thinking about buying a Canon HV10 Hi Def camcorder. To this point, I store home videos on 2 media: 1) miniDV tape and DVD converted from the miniDV tape via iMovie and iDVD. A newspaper article in the Ann Arbor News states that iMovie will support HD content from the Canon HV10. And so my question is 1) Is this true ? and 2) If it is true, is there a way to convert the iMovie made from miniDV tape to iDVD or must I leave it in iMovie form ? If I can transfer the iMovie to iDVD, will I lose the hi definition ? Thanks in advance.

hey there ndbob79,
iMovie HD should be able to deal w/ the HDV format just fine. there are presently no hi-def burners available that i'm aware of & iDVD 5 doesn't support hi-def anyway, so yes you would lose the hi-def. iDVD will convert your movie to standard def(SD) for burning in iDVD. it's been my experience though that like other visual media starting out w/ a higher res format/image(HD) i end up w/ a better product when i compress/shrink it(DVD) as opposed to starting out lower res format/image(SD) & compressing it(DVD). i've made a couple of HDV to DVD discs w/ my Sony A1-U & been pretty happy w/ the results. i am however waitng for a prosumer BD burner.
also in iDVD 6 there are widescreen themes which are kinda cool, but seeing as it's now 2007, you may want to wait for iLife 07 to upgrade your iLife suite as there are sure to be more cool, fun things there.
you'll want a pretty beefy Mac w/ at least 2 GB RAM for anything close to real-time ingest of HDV. i've 2.5 GB on my DP G5.
good luck.

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